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Article: Nobusuke Kishi, Ex-Prime Minister of Japan, Dies
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 8, 1987
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Former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi, 90, who sought to
strengthen ties with the United States through a controversial
revision of the 1951 U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty, died of a
heart ailment today at a Tokyo hospital.
Two months after the treaty revision was ratified, Mr. Kishi, who
served as premier from 1957 to 1960, was forced to resign after
popular protests by opponents who saw the pact as solidifying an
alliance that could draw Japan into a nuclear war.
During World War II, Mr. Kishi had been a top government official
in the Japanese war effort against the United States. In 1941, he
joined the Cabinet of Gen. Hideki Tojo as minister of commerce and
industry. He was one of ...